Test Questions

1. What is obsessive question does Prospero keep asking Ariel?
- Time
2. How many times does Prospero use the word "now"?
- 79 times. Why?
3. What game are Miranda and Ferdinand playing when the curtain is drawn?
-chess
4. What chore does Ferdinand Caliban have on the island?
- carrying wood
5. Shakespeare is interested in creating a sacramental sense of reality. What are the three things people do most in their lives?
- To see, To speak, To do.
6. How is Antony like Pospero?
- Conquer the feminine
7. Which persona did your instructor not associate with Prospero?
- hobbit
8. What can Caliban's mother's name be associated with?
- the boar
9. What was Cleopatra's greatest desire? In Antony and Cleopatra what is curious between all the scense with the two?
- They are never on the stage alone. She wants to be remembered.
10. What is the best way to free someone from pain?
11. What's the consuming myth of Pericles (all four of the last plays)?
-Persephone and Dimeter
12. Why is the handkerchief in Othello important? What does it remind you of?
- The shape of the mole on Imogen, the cowslip
13. Answer everything is the echo.
14. Who is the most important female magician in the last four plays?
-Winter's Tale - Paulina.
15. What does Paulina use to awaken Hermione?
-She plays music.
16. What poem does the MSU motto come from?
- Mountains and mines. "No worst, there is none" by Gerard Hopkins
17. What killed Cleopatra?
- Asp
18. What or whom always show up in romance? Particular element that appears.
- Pirates
19. Which word is used the most in "Winter's Tale"?
- Issue
20. What mythological reference is Antony making on the reference of the shirt of Nessus?
- The Shirt of Flame, Hercules
21. Why does Alonso believe he will not die in the wreck?
- Gonzalo mentioned the mariner did not have the drowning mark, therefore they couldn't drown.
22. What is the most famous stage direction?
- Exit pursued by bear from "Winter's Tale"
23. What does Imogen change her name to?
- Fidel meaning faithful
24. Who echoes Leontes fate to be outside of the churchyard? Mamillius talks about a man who dwells around a churchyard? Who is the character in the play?
- Leontes
25. What three words did Northrup Frye use to prepare you for King Lear?
Nature, Nothing, Fool
26. Who offends King Lear the most with her answer?
- Cordelia
27. What is Lady Gaga's bathtub full of?
- Bath of cottage cheese
28. If you will weep my fortune you can_______. From King Lear?
- take my eyes
29. Recognition scene most protractive?
- in Pericles between father and daughter, husband and wife, and mother and daughter
30. What seest thou else in the dark ____ and ____ of time?
-backward and abysm
31. What play has a Scooby Doo ending?
- Cymbeline
32. What happens to Guiderius just before he is revealed as Cymbeline's son?
- He is exiled.
33. What are the three goddesses revealed at the end of the Winter's Tale?
Paulina the old crone, Hermione the mother, and Perdita the maiden
34. What is the riddle in Pericles?
- has to do with incest.